Originally published in Exclaim!
Scrappy Toronto punks PUP return with their first batch of new material since snagging a Juno Award for their acclaimed third full-length effort, 2019’s Morbid Stuff. PUP’s new six-track EP, aptly titled This Place Sucks Ass, channels the energy of, y’know, everything that’s wrong with the world right now, and the band works through it all with their trademark existential pop-punk and a deeply sarcastic sneer.
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Originally published in Spill Magazine.
After playing two sold out shows at the Danforth Music Hall only a month ago, PUP returned to Toronto for another stop on their Morbid Stuff Tour-Pocalypse tour. This time around the punks took the stage at Echo Beach under the cool summer night sky, playing their biggest hometown headlining show to date. (more…)
Originally published in Spill Magazine.
The scrappy Toronto punks have been busy in the three-year period since their last album was released, 2016’s The Dream Is Over. On top of working on new music, gigging through tour dates left and right, and self-publishing fanzines—PUP also started a record label called Little Dipper, which put out the band’s long-awaited and newly-released third album, Morbid Stuff. (more…)
Matt Owczarz 